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Caption: Students attending colleges like Syracuse University are struggling to keep up with the increased workload and stress that have come with a return to fully in-person classes., Credit: Alex Malanoski 2021
With most college classes back fully in-person, current sophomores who started their college careers online are having a difficult time balancing t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Jonny Morales, 18, worries that COVID-19 will overwhelm the healthcare system he's gotten to know so well from his ER visits.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:35
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Amari Poindexter, 17, says the indifferent attitudes and racism of people during the coronavirus in coastal North Carolina remind her of how her pe...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:06
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Potential Major League Baseball rule changes will impact how the game is played at every level and may not be what's best for baseball.

  • Added: May 01, 2018
  • Length: 06:32
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In the wake of recent hazing and misbehavior of Greek Life chapters on a variety of college campuses, there has been talk about wholesome changes t...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:34
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In the last few years, many colleges and universities have created a new policy that bans all consensual relationships between undergraduates and f...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2018
  • Length: 03:04
Caption: Justin poses with the tattoo that you got for his twentieth birthday, representing the cross country bib that was taken away from him in 2010., Credit: (c) Janel Semonasky, 2017
Justin Bachman has spent his whole life being different. After being diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, Bachman chose to teach others about tolera...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAER Syracuse, NY, and WNYO


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
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After the deaths of two of their members, Phi Kappa Psi of Syracuse University decides to take action against the national issue of distracted driv...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: From left to right, Chris McGlynn, Billy Sickles, Matt Weintraub, Jibran Meiser, Dan Wickens, Tyler Finkler all played high school Ultimate under Ryan Belline. Now all of them play professionally.  (c) 2016 Tricia McGlynn, Credit: Tricia McGlynn
This is a personal story of how a lack of officials has come to define the sport of Ultimate Frisbee and how the sport is evolving now that it has ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Students at Syracuse University march around campus holding signs and chanting.
A piece about college students standing for change and ending rape culture.

  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 03:26
Caption: Depression On The Color Wheel, Credit: Stephanie Mooney 2016
Recent studies show that Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, may not be a real disorder after all.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: Informational pamphlets at the In My Father's Kitchen office.
How a more personal approach to ending homelessness may also be more effective.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:32
Caption: Peyton Sefick plays weekly on the local CNY United Power Soccer Team for extra practice for the 2017 World Cup, Credit: © 2015 Elissa Candiotti
One young man in Syracuse is preparing to embark on a journey across the world all for the love of a game. In 2017, Peyton Sefick will compete in t...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 03:54
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There are times when you find yourself in the right place at the right time.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:35
Caption: Tyler Carter, Credit: Ian Hill/KQED
Tyler Carter, 20, of Ukiah, Calif., talked with KQED’s Lillian Mongeau about how his father's opinions make him feel about politics.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: :51
Caption: Ross Rothpanhar, Credit: Ian Hill/KQED
Ross Rothpanhar is a public health major at University of California, Berkeley. He says growing up poor made him appreciate government services.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:06
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Guillermo Cespedes often gets calls in the wee hours of the night. He's the Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles, and he's responsible for overseeing the c...

  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 08:27
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WRVG's Chuck Harris looks into how college students spend their precious sleep time.

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
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Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Self-portrait painted by Thien To
Twenty-year-old Thien To first learned about cyberbullying in her native Vietnam. The South Philadelphia High junior has since learned about cyberb...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and WGXC


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Luis Lopez, Credit: Craig Santoro
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.

Bought by WHYY and WGXC


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Akinori Adachi is an exchange student from Japan who is currently studying in Maine. He says that before the nuclear crisis in Fukushima caused by ...

Bought by KZYX and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: City High School students Grace and A watch the President, Credit: Sarah Bromer
Teenagers at City High School in downtown Tucson share their reactions to the tragic shooting on January 8, 2011. (Long and short version)

  • Added: Jan 15, 2011
  • Length: 08:00